Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 102-103. (Budapest, 2005)

ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - A 2005. ÉV - ÉVA NYERGES: The New Permanent Exhibition of the Spanish Collection in the Old Masters' Gallery

67 A DETAIL OF THE EL G RECO ROOM moveable panels that were common in mediaeval Hungary. The different sort of mediaeval panel-paintings became inbuilt into this altar-wall in accordance with their original function: the middle-paintings, the paintings on the wings, the door-paintings and the fragments of the predella as well. Though the paintings are works of various masters, they are from the same region and period, from Catalonia and Aragon, from the second half of the fifteenth century. This is why the display is not only impressive, but also of didactic character. Room 3, the so-called El Greco Room (fig. 67), houses, beside the five paintings of the master himself and two of his followers, a newly exhibited painting, attributed to a Valencián master, made in 1569: the Portrait of a Man with Cat. The man of rank and humanist erudition is characterised by a Spanish proverb legible on a letter ("There is no pleasure without pleasure"), as well as by the scene depicted on the tiny relief of the medal attached to his hat: it shows a hunched figure carrying the wheel of fate on his back and holding the fasces of Hope in his hand. Next to the entrance, in the two-sided showcase, there is the composition Christ with the Holy Sacrament, from the altar made by Vicente Macip Comes; it is placed in a way to show the original function of the piece, which was once the door of the